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- What size can a mimosa reach?
- How big can a mimosa become?
- Pull mimosa as bonsai
- Mimosa can be cut back badly
- Mimosas are difficult to overwinter
- Tips
Mimosa can become as indoor plants up to half a meter high
What size can a mimosa reach?
Mimosas belong to the butterfly flowers that are grown as a houseplant. With good care and an optimal location they can reach a considerable size despite their tender leaves. However, taking care of a mimosa requires a lot of specialist knowledge.
How big can a mimosa become?
If the mimosa gets the right care and is in a favorable location, it can reach the considerable size of 50 centimeters. This is not necessarily to be expected with the delicate, feathery leaves.
Unfortunately, only a few mimosa houseplants get the best possible care so that they usually stay smaller or even die in quickly.
For most flower lovers, it is not worth keeping a mimosa perennial, so the plants maintained in the room are disposed of after one year.
Pull mimosa as bonsai
Experienced bonsai gardeners face the challenge of producing mimosa bonsai, although plants generally do not grow very high.
However, the breeding of mimosa as a bonsai is only possible by real experts, as the plant is not well cut-tolerant and is not easy to hibernate.
Mimosa can be cut back badly
Mimosa develop a bulky growth in the first year, which does not look so decorative. In the second year, the plants can look very neglected. Since they do not cut well, it is not worthwhile for most hobby gardeners to take care of them for several years. Therefore, most mimosa-drawn mimosas do not reach their final size.
You can not cut young mimosa at all if the plant is to survive. For older specimens, pruning can be successful. Often, however, the pruning leads to the mimosa entering.
Mimosas are difficult to overwinter
The biggest difficulty with mimosa care is hibernation. The non hardy plant is grown year round in warm temperatures. In winter, it is usually lacking in our latitudes, the light and the humidity is usually not sufficient.
Tips
There are about 500 different mimosa species. For the culture in the room, however, only one species is used, the Mimosa pudica. It has pinkish-purple flowers that look a bit like dandelions.